Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.”
As most things in life, planning can make a world of difference when it comes to systems failing. But when it comes to human safety involved in those fails that only highlights the importance of planning ahead to be ready for anything.
One of my favorite sayings is 'hope for the best, but plan for the worst.' This is extremely important for natural gas distribution because planning ahead could save lives, lots of human lives. Which is why it's critical when considering a secondary system in case your primary system stops functioning.
Many gas distribution companies still rely on outdated systems in one central location without the proper back-up in case of unforeseen circumstances that could potential have them lose all data because they didn’t probably prepare.
With Emerson's DeltaV SaaS for natural gas distribution that enable a speedy implementation to a secure secondary back-up system to monitor and control your sites remotely from anywhere, anytime.
Our platform provides you a scalable and flexible system for monitoring a single site to thousands of monitoring points, with easy integration of remote devices and a wide range of system solutions for existing host networks, on-premise hosts, or off-premises cloud based solutions that can easily supplement or replace your on-premise system.
During unexpected events your staff will be able to successfully continue to operate sites by using our web-based platform or our mobile app that works on any smart device. DeltaV SaaS offers a wide variety of strong benefits to keep you, your team and your operations safer including:
Flexibility: Scalable IIoT system with monitoring, from a single site to thousands of monitoring points.
Evergreen Software: Software updates are automatically applied without any interruptions to your operations.
Technology backed by service: Innovative cloud & IIoT technology backed by always-on support experts available 24/7/365
Secure back-up: Real-time data to your control room operations, with accurate historian to avoid any communication outages.
Mobility: Your employees can quickly access site information from any mobile device with the mobile app that enables alarms to be delivered directly to your staff’s phones via text message or email, allowing rapid response to different situations.
Advanced analytics: Insights with advanced analytics to present actionable data for effective decision making.
IT/OT friendly: Our layered approach for life saving back-up without interrupting any IT/OT systems in place already
System Redundancy - Is your system still operable during a disaster?
We recently provided our SaaS cloud-native system to a natural gas utility provider customer who was using a traditional on-premises system with a single server. They were concerned that if that server went down or the office where that system was housed had to close, they would be without control and alarming capabilities.
They required a cost-effective solution for redundant monitoring and alarming on their critical town border pressure monitoring station and their critical intake stations.
Our team was quick to set-up Emerson's DeltaV SaaS as their secondary system, helping them solve their critical site redundancy problem. It also provides more redundancy because it is a fully separate communication channel and a separate SCADA system. Also, in the event of a natural disaster, they can monitor their assets from anywhere.
Get ahead with your planning- replace or supplement your on-premise SCADA system with Emerson's DeltaV SaaS.
